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• I agree that parents need to take a more active role in their children's lives. Think about all those vocal people who want to censor our games and music and TV shows, because *gasp* children might be exposed to it! So I don't think it's a bad thing to point the finger at parents who don't know a damned thing about what their kids are into, don't know what their games and their music is about.
  
  However, I don't think that means you need to shelter your kids from everything violent. I played loads of those games when I was little. I still do. What you need are parents to teach kids "this is make believe, in the real world you don't behave like that."
  
  And you know what? The world hasn't succumbed to violent angry video game nerds boiling out of their parents' basements running around shooting people. You know why? We're not frigging idiots.
  
  Poverty is proven to be the cause of violent crimes, and prosperity is where you find white collar crimes. Why don't we spend more time worrying about that, and less time worrying about what color the blood spatters are in Mortal Kombat? In reply to: "Should parents police their children more aggressively?"

  November 28, 2008

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